Press Releases
01/06/2012 - The African Development Bank (AfDB) and global conservation group WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) have launched today a joint report on the state of Africa’s environment. The Africa Ecological Footprint Report: Green Infrastructure for Africa's Ecological Security takes stock of the health of Africa’s ecosystems, as well as trends in resources use patterns. It also lays out recommendations on implementing green development pathways for Africa.
Categories: Tanzania, Environment, Climate Change
27/05/2012 - On 22 May 2012, the African Development Bank (AfDB) hosted a Joint MDB Adaptation Finance Tracking Workshop on the sidelines of the Climate Change Conference of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC), held from 14 to 25 May in Bonn, Germany. The MDBs discussed the adaptation concept that they will adopt, as well as the high level principles of the joint methodology, and a roadmap to test and disclose the methodology by the 2012 UN Climate Change Conference (COP18) in late November.
Categories: Economic & Financial Governance, Climate Change, Environment
16/05/2012 - The Boards of Directors of the African Development Bank Group today in Tunis approved the equivalent of USD 436 million for the financing of Morocco’s power project, and two other investments in Africa. The first approval is an AfDB loan of Euro 168 million and USD 100 million Clean Technology Fund concessionary loan to finance the first phase of the Ouarzazate solar power station in Morocco.
Categories: Morocco, Energy & Power, Climate Change, Climate Investment Funds (CIF), Environment
10/05/2012 - As Mali strives to become an emerging economy, it is focusing on energy sector reforms to support growth and improve quality of life. Renewable energy holds significant potential for scaling up across the country and promises to decrease dependence on fossil fuel imports and reduce forest degradation caused by increasing energy demands.
Categories: Mali, Climate Investment Funds (CIF), Energy & Power, Climate Change, Environment
20/04/2012 - The 4th Africa Carbon Forum (ACF),opened its doors this week to more than 1,000 registered participants from across the world to foster a discussion on climate change and carbon finance in Africa. The message resonating this year from the Forum is that Africa represents a golden opportunity for a green future.
Categories: Climate Change, African Carbon Support Program, Environment
05/12/2011 - Five Multilateral Development Banks, who are lending some $8.4 billion annually for climate action in cities, agreed today on a new partnership to combat global warming.
Categories: South Africa, Climate Change, Climate Investment Funds (CIF), Environment
02/12/2011 - Africa is the most vulnerable continent to the adverse effects of climate change, and urgently needs to deal with them. But doing so will be costly. That was the message heard at a session at the international climate change conference, COP 17, currently underway in Durban.
Categories: South Africa, Climate Change, Environment
02/12/2011 - La Banque africaine de développement (BAD) et la conférence des Nations Unies sur le commerce et le développement (CNUCED) ont exprimé fermement leur volonté de dynamiser le développement grâce aux énergies renouvelables lors du lancement à Tunis du nouveau rapport 2011 sur la technologie et l’innovation.
Categories: Energy & Power, Climate Change, Environment
02/12/2011 - That seems to be the question being asked all over Africa. Irrigation levels are low, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa where less than four percent of cropland is irrigated, which means farmers tend to go for rainfed agriculture.
Categories: Agriculture & Agro-industries, Climate Change, Water Supply & Sanitation, Rural Water Supply & Sanitation Initiative, Environment
30/11/2011 - Three African leaders yesterday launched the Africa Pavilion at the UN Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa. The conference, also known more technically as the Seventeenth Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), runs from 28 November through 9 December.
Categories: South Africa, Climate Change, Environment
